528. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life is Meaningless and Amazing

528.尤瓦尔·诺亚·哈拉里认为生活毫无意义且令人惊奇

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2022-12-29

51 分钟
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In this special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt talks to the best-selling author of "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus" about finding the profound in the obvious.

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  • Hey there, it's Steven Dubner, and I'd like to wish you happy holidays.

  • I really appreciate your listening to freakonomics radio all year long.

  • We have had a great time making it and also building out the Freakonomics radio network with new shows.

  • One of them is people I mostly admire.

  • It's an amazing interview show hosted by my Freakonomics friend and co author, Steve Levitt.

  • So today we wanted to play for you one of Levitt's very best interviews with Yuval know Harari, the author and historian best known for writing a brief history of humankind.

  • It is a book that has changed how millions of people think about history and themselves.

  • If you have read sapiens, the conversation you are about to hear will take you even deeper inside it.

  • And if you haven't, well, prepare yourself for a treat and perhaps to have your mind blown.

  • Steve Leavitt has gotten really good at having mind blowing conversations with scientists, philanthropists, healers, artists, trivia masters, you name it.

  • Again.

  • His podcast is called people I mostly admire, and I hope you will follow or subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app.

  • As always, thanks for listening.

  • My guest today is Yuval Noah Harari, author of the blockbuster book Sapiens, which tells the entire history of our species in under 450 pages.

  • Sapiens took the word by storm, selling over 23 million copies in 65 languages.

  • This is your story as a human being.

  • What does it mean to be human?

  • Welcome to people I mostly admire.

  • With Steve Levitt, Sapien's path to success was an extremely unlikely one.

  • At the time he wrote it, Harare was a completely unknown historian of the Middle Ages, lecturing at Hebrew University in Israel.